The Making of "Love Me Do" | The Please Please Me Sessions

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Everything you need to know about The Beatles' "Love Me Do." |

If Besame Mucho failed to impress the Parlophone crew, the next track the Beatles recorded prompted engineer Norman Smith to send tape-operator Chris Neal to fetch George Martin. The reason is clear from the audition tape, issued on Anthology 1. Here, suddenly, was something utterly fresh and original the Beatles had written. Intrigued, George Martin supervised a take which caught the cold Northern breeze of a very unusual sound.

"Love Me Do" was the first song recorded and released by the Beatles, not including any recordings made with Tony Sheridan and The Beat Brothers.

In his book, Paul describes the 1958 writing session for the song: "'Love Me Do' was written in one of our sessions at 20 Forthlin Road; completely co-written. It might have been my original idea but some of them really were 50-50s, and I think that one was. It was just Lennon and McCartney sitting down without either of us having a particularly original idea... We loved doing it, it was a very interesting thing to try and learn to do, to become songwriters. I think why we eventually got so strong was we wrote so much through our formative period."

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All Comments (21)
  • @stephenellis2866
    It’s remarkable that two of the world’s greatest composers lived a few streets away from each other!
  • @joeshmoe7789
    Even as a long time Beatles fan, I didn't have much interest in the Love Me Do story. I loved every second of this. I'm glad I watched this. Great Job!!!
  • @davidoran123
    THEY were such a force in the world in my young years, they gave us so much and changed things forever.
  • @russellrapport5435
    When local musician Delbert McClinton was asked if he taught John Lennon how to play harmonica, he said he didn't know. "It was one of them Beatles."
  • @bobwilcox3463
    Love me do was a good and nice song. Especially the first song of the Beatles.
  • @gostrum1
    Thanks 👌 Nicely produced mini-doc
  • @wongsoongcheng1245
    Thank God Pete Best is now receiving royalties for his efforts in Love Me Do.
  • @mikenyny755
    (Incidentally)... Being as their second single "Please Please Me" was mentioned, I am copy and pasting this from Goggle: "The single was released in the UK on 11 January 1963 and reached No. 1 on the New Musical Express and Melody Maker charts. However, it only reached No. 2 on the Record Retailer chart, which subsequently evolved into the UK Singles Chart. Because of this, it was not included on the Beatles' number ones compilation, 1."
  • @markr.devereux3385
    I believe LOVE ME DO to be one of my favorites. Its so cool. Ive heard there might be ghostwriters called in to get the Beatles off the launching pad.
  • @user-sq4jz9up6g
    While they dismissed his contribution later Martin.was the perfect man to guide the early Beatles.and it shows
  • @mhpjii
    I am fascinated to learn at what point and why (!) George Martin understood that Lennon and McCartney were unusually gifted songwriters.
  • @aminahmed2220
    Absolutely awesome have a wonderful day also last night was Canada day where I live in ❤😊
  • @erichall7068
    Very well put together video.. lots of Juicy bits in it
  • @cjmacq-vg8um
    i always thought "love me do" sounded more like a folk song rather than a blues song. remember folk music was REALLY BIG in the u. s. in the early 60s. so i just assumed that was their influence for that song. i remember the first time i heard this song. I LOVED IT but didn't know it was a beatles song. i had just gotten for christmas my first clock radio. that night i heard it on that radio 6, maybe 7 years after its initial release. now, growing up i had inherited from my brother many beatle singles and their debut american album "meet the beatles." i, like everyone else, was well aware of the beatles. but when the dj said that was a beatles song i just couldn't believe it. it was so unlike any other beatles song i had ever heard. and yet still didn't know it was the first single they released. still love that song. still love the beatles. still love the 60s. my only question is - since the 60s WHERE DID HUMANITY GO WRONG? the world's a bloody mess. 100 times worse than just 40 years ago. seems EVERYONE has completely lost their minds. thanks for the video.